Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Darwin's face appears miraculously on frying pan


The wonderful Panda's Thumb announces:

From London comes the astonishing news that the unmistakable image of Charles Darwin has appeared in the bottom of a postdoc’s frying pan. Scientists around the world1 are puzzled about the possible mechanism that might have resulted in the 19th century naturalist’s portrait being deposited on the suface of a cooking utensil.

In one attempted application of the Explanatory FilterTM it was found that the probability of this occurance is less than that of fairy circles appearing to form a mole on the face on Mars2. (This is, coincidentally, precisely equal to the probability that Nicholas Caputo would have hit David Berlinski if he had fired an arrow at Albert Einstein’s door during a total solar eclipse.)


Full article here.

1 comment:

Ben, aka BadBen said...

It's a miracle!!!
Scratch that. It's a highly improbable event that's come to fruition.
I once had a plate of scrambled eggs that resembled my mother in law. My appetite turned south at about that same moment. Damn her, for not being a celebrity or even a "well known woman of science." Coulda made a bundle on Ebay.